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I want to belatedly thank Nine (or GEM ) for the excellent start time and end time of Person of Interest on Tuesday night. I’m very happy I got to see Four Corners as well. I enjoyed the experience better than last week. Thank you.

@frankly, you make some very good points and no, fair shows don’t get more viewers. MKR uses similar strategising amongst contestants and it is done so solely for dramatic tension and it ran away with ratings every night for months earlier this year. I realise that these sorts of shows thrive on that sort of tension, but it is still ugly to witness when blatantly unfair scores are given.

The stakes are very, very high on HR, probably too high (entire mortgage paid off in one hit), hence the unfair scores we are seeing as contestants are desperate to stay in the running. Human nature, I guess. Speaking for myself, I certainly don’t think 2.3M was high enough for the Voice finale, I would have expected well over 3M, given how the show is hyped to within an inch of its life. I think the MKR finale a couple of months ago got higher ratings than that.

Who wants to see competition amongst competitors? There should definitely be competition if you don’t want to bore viewers away. HR gives the contestants the opportunity to score other teams’ work. This doesn’t kill the show. It is another level to enhance the show if properly utilised. Unfortunately, the contestants’ scoring was the only situation where competetive tension could arise, but it was never recognisable then.

We are talking about lots of money, right? So why should everybody be so nice and not try to sabotage each other? Feels unnatural and constructed.

Does a fair show get more viewers? The Voice got Barnes’ daughter with hundreds of record deals before appearing on The Voice. People paid for calling for their favourite artist for a whole week, only to realise that their calls did not really affect who is in the next round because only Seal and co.’s decision counted. Would there be more viewers if it was fair?

Was The Voice 2 fair? Are 2.3m enough viewers for a final The Voice show? How about My Kitchen Rules? The show had a lot of audience despite mean characters.

See i disagree, i think the contestants scoring works and is relevant on House Rules. It is their house after all so they have a personal investment in it. If they like it, they’ll vote accordingly. And because it is their house they the might feel differently to the judges as they have to live in it. We’ve already seen contestants score both higher and lower than the judges.
MKR its prob backfired now. They should keep all scoring secret until last restaurant.

@Ryan, I agree with you. There should be no scoring of contestants by each other as inevitably, it brings ugly strategising into it. This is what blighted the first series of Masterchef, when contestants scored each other strategically in order to progress. I note they got rid of it quick smart from Season Two onwards, such was viewer dismay with the system. Sure, it adds an element of drama, but it leaves a very bad taste in viewers’ mouths. I hope they jettison this practice in Season Two of HR. Either rely solely on the judges vote, or combine the judges vote with a viewer phone-in vote, but please, do away with the contestants scoring each others work as it brings out the worst in them, leads to nasty strategising and victimisation and the scores will never, ever be fair.

The only thing I don’t like about house rules is the fact the contestants score each others work which really isn’t fair. I know if I was a contestant I would give others teams at least 1 less point then they deserved just so I could go further in the game.

You definitely need competitors to change the market, otherwise we will be doomed to create and watch the same shows with the same stories all over again. Sure, the key factor is money through advertising, isn’t it TB? So you had to take what you could get if you like renovation on tv. Now, the audience is given a choice. TB and HR are both barely successful and the audience can choose which style of a renovation format they prefer. For the next weeks, it’s a matter of improvement and how long these two shows are bearable to watch.
BTW: How about a celebrity version or why not be brave and include at least one Asian team? This will target to a bigger audience, right?

For me the difference is HR is about Renovations and room reveals with nicer personalities. The Block is about stupid challenges to win money, bitchy dramas and room reveals.
HR does have some dramas, but they are mostly with the renovation at the forefront, rather than the petty Block style feuds.
Just my opinion!